Carpenters' Hall, (Chestnut Street, Bet, 3rd and 4th)

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Excerpt from Carpenters' Hall, (Chestnut Street, Bet, 3rd and 4th): And Its Historic MemoriesWhen we survey this quaint old building, situ ated at the head of Carpenters' Court, on Chestnut street, between Third and Fourth streets, and consider that when erected it stood beyond the outskirts of the city, we cannot but admire the public spirit of its founders.The Carpenters' Company, of the City and County of Philadelphia, is one of the oldest Associations of Pennsylvania, being instituted about forty years after the settlement of the pro vince by William Penn, and maintaining an nu interrupted existence from the year 1724. Among its early members were many prominent in 0010 nial history, and whose architectural tastes are impressed upon buildings that yet remain, memo rials of that early day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.